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Stephan Smith
Now's the Time
Genres: Folk, Pop

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Now's the Time
2. It's Just Gonna Take Everyone
3. West Kentucky
4. Railroad Boy
5. All Together Now
6. The Chickadee Boom
7. I Need to Know
8. Another Man Down
9. Ballad of Abner Louima
10. Oh Death
11. The Media Mogul
12. Hopelessly and Endlessly in Love
13. Movin' Down the Line
14. Peace on Earth

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CD Details

All Artists: Stephan Smith
Title: Now's the Time
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Original Release Date: 6/8/1999
Release Date: 6/8/1999
Genres: Folk, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 011661316720

Synopsis

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Stephan Smith's heart is in the right place. He wants peace and harmony. Of course, most everyone wants peace and harmony, and most of us cringe at the evil men do. The problem is that the New York-based troubadour hasn't come up with any new, invigorating, or insightful ways of communicating his very sincere desires. One guy with a guitar and some well-meaning but platitude-heavy lyrics just doesn't make it with this ex-punk-rocker's debut. If you don't mind Smith's early-Dylan impersonation and you're willing to forgive lyrical banality (in "It's Just Gonna Take Everyone" he tells us it's going to take everyone--you, me, us, them, friend and foe, skyscrapers and trees; unfortunately, he never tells us what we're all needed for), you might find something to like in this overly earnest effort. --Percy Keegan

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CD Reviews

This Guy Is Amazing!

07/21/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album sounds partly like Woody Gutherie, partly like Hank Williams, but at the same time it could only have been recorded today. The songs -- particularly the topical ballads -- are really well written, intelligent and moving. Maybe the best is about the high school shooting in West Kentucky. Also, Smith is a fantastic musician. The banjo on the traditional ballad "Railroad Boy" is breathtaking, and I have no idea how he got the wild guitar sound on "Another Man Down," it's very spooky. The song "Oh Death" sounds so classic you imagine it was written 100 years ago, and it hits you like a great old song should. Anyone really interested in the folk tradition -- or who loves the Harry Smith Folkways Anthology -- should get this album."

The Latest New Dylan?

Andrew Boyd | 08/09/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I caught Stephan Smith playing the side stage at the Bob Dylan/Paul Simon tour in Hartford recently, and was very impressed. But even though the papers compare him to Dylan -- they compare EVERY topical accoustic performer to Dylan -- he's really doing something different and his own. He's definitely more in the Woody Gutherie mold, topical but diverse."

Stephan Smith rocks/redeems my world

Andrew Boyd | New York, NY United States | 11/30/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Stephan Smith's music is haunting and prophetic.
If you think he's naive and polemical (like this Percy Keegan guy who wrote the editorial review up there) then your heart is already tone-deaf."